GAZA CITY  The top leader of Hamas dared Israel on Monday to launch a ground invasion of Gaza and dismissed diplomatic efforts to broker a cease-fire in the six-day-old conflict, as the Israeli military conducted a new wave of deadly airstrikes on the besieged Palestinian enclave, including a second hit on a 15-story building that houses media outlets. A volley of rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel included one that hit a vacant school.

Speaking at a news conference in Cairo, where the diplomatic efforts were under way, the Hamas leader, Khaled Meshal, suggested that the Israeli infantry mobilization on the border with Gaza was a bluff on the part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

If you wanted to launch it, you would have done it, Mr. Meshal told reporters. He accused Israel of using the invasion threat as an attempt to dictate its own terms and force us into silence.

Rejecting Israels contention that Hamas had precipitated the conflict, Mr. Meshal said the burden was on the Israelis. The demand of the people of Gaza is meeting their legimitate demands  for Israel to be restrained from its aggression, assassinations and invasions, and for the siege over Gaza to be ended, he said.

The Hamas Health Ministry said Monday evening that a total of 102 people had been killed since Wednesday morning, when Israeli airstrikes began, following months of Palestinian rocket fire into Israel. A spokeswoman for the Israeli military said she believed that a majority of these were militants, though it is difficult to know because Hamass own fighting brigade and the other factional groups are secretive.

Reading the opening paragraphs to the story, it simply boggles the mind, in the sense in which Meshal. the Hamas leader is so deluded, so convoluted, goading,antagonizing Israel to invade, attack as if it were simply a matter of two bullies daring each other in the school yard, the worst outcome might be a bloody nose. Yet he takes brinkmanship beyond suicidal, daring one of the best, well-equipped armies to blow things up to Kingdom Come. Let them. I wonder, if Meshal survives, probably now will, with Hamas begging for a ceasefire, if he ever dares Israel to ever invade again.

yep sand man insane and old bob were telling the world all about how powerful they were. It took us awhile to assemble the manpower and logistical support necessary to stomp them into the sand and they talked crap all the time we were getting ready. Where are then now??????

...the Hamas leader is so deluded, so convoluted, goading,antagonizing Israel to invade, attack as if it were simply a matter of two bullies daring each other in the school yard, the worst outcome might be a bloody nose. Yet he takes brinkmanship beyond suicidal, ...

Kinda makes ya wonder why!

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posted on 11/19/2012 2:41:25 PM PST
by zzeeman
("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")

He would have double dog dared the Israelis but Muslims arent keen on dogs.

According to muslim 0bama, dog is a bit tough........

With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.

This passage explains a lot. It appears 0bama must have ate a lot of meat from retarded donkeys........because he took on the powers of a jackass.

I’d use the IDF to create a WIDE buffer zone between Sinai and Gaza....then ANNEX the buffer zone.

Then kill the power to Gaza until at least until 90 days passes without the Gazans launching a single missile.
Every time even a single missile is launched then another 90 days. After the third 90 day shutdown announce that another missile launch will result in Israel permanently pulling down the power lines that go to Gaza.

It’s an interesting thing to note that since Israel is now in full on war mobilization mode with bomb shelters readied and the civilians and reserves prepared.. it’s a great time to hit Iran.

Israel has a reserve army that cannot be pulled away from their lives too often or for too long at a time. This means Israel must always take care of business quickly when the reserves are called....so the urge is to take out Gaza, Hez in Lebanon, Egypt and Iran while the IDF is mobilized...perhaps lay some hurt on Syria as well if they act up.

And please, this time ANNEX the northern half of the Sinai!
Bargain away the southern half if you must but never let Egypt close to the current border again.

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posted on 11/19/2012 3:12:56 PM PST
by Bobalu
(It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)

We are seeing, yet again, the stupidity of relinquishing control of the Gaza strip to a terrorist organization. Attacks from the West bank are next and then the Golan Heights. Who’s dumb idea was that again?

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posted on 11/19/2012 3:21:04 PM PST
by boatbums
(God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)

TITLE: DOUHET: STILL RELEVANT TODAY
I. Theme: The Italian Giulio Douhet was the first to
envision the true potential of air power. His book, The
Command of the Air, presents an airpower doctrine based on
the premise that armies and navies alone can no longer win
wars.

I know that terrorists infiltrate every part of Israel, but by letting the Gaza Strip go to the Palies and their election of Hamas, the terrorists then are able to build up tunnels and set up rocket launchers in order to attack Israel right at the border. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip:

Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War in 1967. Pursuant to the Oslo Accords signed in 1993, the Palestinian Authority became the administrative body that governed Palestinian population centres. Israel maintained control of the airspace, territorial waters and border crossings apart from the land border with Egypt. Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2005.

The Gaza Strip forms part of the Palestinian territories. Since July 2007, following the 2006 Palestinian legislative election and the following the Battle of Gaza, Hamas has functioned as the de facto ruler in the Gaza Strip, forming an alternative Hamas Government in Gaza.

And for the Oslo Accords that essentially made Israel give up their strategic southwestern flank, we can thank:

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posted on 11/19/2012 3:39:38 PM PST
by boatbums
(God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)

"the Israeli military conducted a new wave of deadly airstrikes on the besieged Palestinian enclave"

They seem to forget the hundreds of missiles being fired out of Gaza into Israel that kicked this whole thing off. but that is not surprizing, the NYT respresents one of the chief progressive/leftist/islamic abetting propoganda ministries in the country.

And the Hamas leader is a blow hard. Notice where he is. He's in Cairo, he sure isn't with his "peeps." He wants Israel to invide because he thinks he will have more luck trying to get Egypt, Iran and ultimately the Saudis to intercede against Israel...that's what he and all of the fundi Islamics really want.

Surgically take just HIM out. The IDF has capabilities to do these things very skillfully. Oh,just before the bombs hit, he will turn Nixonian perhaps. "For gentlemen, this will be my LAST press conference. Just think how much you will be missing me. You won't have Khaled Meshal to kick around anymore..."

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posted on 11/19/2012 9:13:12 PM PST
by AmericanInTokyo
(*Too many* damned conservatives in the GOP primaries split the vote for Romney. We are SO retarded!)

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